A totally new concept to federal bureaucrats to be sure.
Posted on 11/02/2017 1:00:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Environmental Protection Agency dismissed its top science counselors without telling them in advance, two of them told HuffPost on Wednesday.
The head of the Science Advisory Board, Peter Thorne, and the head of the Board of Scientific Counselors, Deborah Swackhamer, said they learned from news reporters that they had been replaced.
“This is really a destruction of the scientific integrity at EPA,” said Thorne, a University of Iowa professor of occupational and environmental health who has served as the head of the Science Advisory Board since 2015. “It’s disheartening to see.”
Swackhamer went public five months ago with accusations that Pruitt’s chief of staff pressured her to alter her congressional testimony to play down the EPA’s dismissal of scientific advisers.
“I was stunned that he was pushing me to ‘correct’ something in my testimony,” Swackhamer told The New York Times in June. “I was factual, and he was not. I felt bullied.”
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Pruitt basically said if your working on an EPA grant funded project, then you can’t serve on a policy board that may have peer review over that project. This was a self serving practice to skew the science and channel funding to like minded cronies.
EPA Replaced Its Top *Junk* Science Advisers Without Telling Them
Tell these lame brain libs to make their living somewhere else.
The more I hear about Pruitt, the more I like him.
Thanks for the short explanation. There is no limit to these entitled libs thinking they have God given rights to suck off the Federal tit....... In perpetuity.
Pruitt is hard core he knows how these liberal fakers run their game which in theory I don’t mind. They can have their theories.But don’t expect the taxpayers to fund your BS!
Oh, you're lucky. I had to throw myself into the street.
A totally new concept to federal bureaucrats to be sure.
Haven’t seen that darned red stapler for a long time...
“This is really a destruction of the scientific integrity at EPA,” said Thorne, a University of Iowa professor”
Good news is, he’s not a very good liar.
YAY!
well, bye... 
“Their prediction models didn’t see this coming?”
You win sergeantdave’s award for the funniest post of the day. Good job, caligatrux.
*** “Clean out your desk and follow the security person to the door.” ***
I was once told to board a helicopter, they mailed my desk contents (still don’t know who I ticked off)
2 weeks later I was 4 miles away from that rig with a different Company and my old rig had to evacuate to my new rig, the person that fired me was probably my bunk mate for a week.
Life is as strange as people are and it is what it was/is
Lol “I felt bullied.” These are supposed adults speaking.
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